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War Pigs Mad; China’s ‘dirt cheap’ missiles could shake up global defence market: state media(sc.mp)
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[-]GuyWhite2(+2|0)

Interesting. But couldn’t read due to pay wall

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[-]x0x71(+1|0)

Good point. I'm tempted to make paywalled media invalid. In an ideal world pay walled media would just get mass downvoted like it was worse than medical blog spam. But that isn't what happens in reality because people read the title and go straight to the comments because the comments are more fun.

In theory the only valid links on a link aggregator would be shareable links. If the link doesn't have content that can be seen without an additional barrier is it really a shareable link? If news sites want to charge people for access and also want people to link into their site they should make some of their articles free.

Here's how we'll handle these. These are really advertisements rather than articles. If someone spots a paywall they can make a call to mass downvote the domain. If the mass downvote exceeds the upvotes then I ban the domain. I'm not really banning the ability to share articles because they aren't articles. They are a content-less page with an appeal to give them money. Most actual spam sites aren't as ballsy as that. But at the end of the day the community gets the choice through upvotes or downvotes.

This follows the rule that promotion is allowed so long as users like it. This is a promotion. The question is if people like it more than they hate it, or hate it more than they like it.

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[-]JasonCarswell1(+1|0)

How about a couple little favicon logo-buttons with auto-links to the archives?
[A.T] for Archive.Today / Archive.Is and [WBM] WayBackMachine.

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[-]hfxB0oyA1(+1|0)

Sorry gents - it's not paywalled for me, for some reason. Here's an archive link.

Edit: wasn't expecting it to show in a frame. How do I launch it in a new tab?

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[-]Neol2(+2|0)

Would you call Chinese generals war pigs if they would invade Taiwan?

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[-]hfxB0oyA1(+1|0)

Yes, I would.

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[-]x0x72(+2|0)

Mad? Now they have to develop a response.

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[-]hfxB0oyA1(+1|0)

Imagine if the number of wars across the world took a steep decline because the Chinese priced the weapons manufacturers out of the market.

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